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George Prowse wrote: |
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> I think you are missing the point. If you sit and wait for them to |
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> join you will always be understaffed. |
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> Go on a big dev drive! Announce it all over all the Gentoo's normal |
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> communication channels and other generic linux places! Email some |
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> linux magazines, talk to distrowatch, message some large LUGs. Get |
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> people talking about it. Whatever happens, dont just sit on your |
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> hands. Tell the users that Gentoo needs them and that they can make a |
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> difference! |
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> If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned correctly |
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> with a sufficient number of current developers who are willing to walk |
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> people through how and what it means to be a Gentoo Developer then the |
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> influx could create a new backbone of new developers who will |
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> hopefully be here for years to come. |
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I agree with you. Gentoo is not doing enough publicity on needed help (I |
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sincerely think the related page in gentoo.org is out of date) and we |
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can read too often in gentoo.org recruitment pages that "user should not |
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ask and should wait to be asking". I'm not sure most devs are looking to |
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users as potential new devs. It's clearly not a good recruitment policy. |
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Maybe when we are full staffed but surely not when we are understaffed |
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like it looks like. |
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An active recruitment policy like a recruitment campaign should be very |
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positive and I would be glad to help with that. |
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Regards, |
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Mounir |
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